Key Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end R2R operations, ensuring timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end and year-end close.

- Provide strong financial controllership across GL, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals/provisions, fixed assets, intercompany, cash & bank accounting and financial reporting.

- Establish and drive reconciliation governance, including account ownership, ageing management, risk-based reviews, open-item resolution and balance-sheet health reviews.

- Own SLA/KPI performance, service quality, controls and operational risks, driving root-cause analysis and sustainable resolution of performance gaps.

- Drive process transformation, automation and AI enablement by applying Lean principles to simplify and standardize processes, eliminate non-value-added activities, strengthen controls, and establish best-in-class, digitally enabled finance operations.

- Ensure adherence to accounting standards, policies, SOPs, internal controls/SOX requirements and audit readiness, including coordination with internal and external auditors.

- Lead client and stakeholder governance, including performance reviews, issue resolution, escalations, risks, dependencies and transformation initiatives.

- Partner with P2P, O2C, Treasury, Tax, FP&A and Business Finance teams to resolve dependencies and continuously improve end-to-end finance processes.

- Manage, coach and develop a team of 10 - 15 professionals, building strong accounting, problem-solving, digital and continuous-improvement capabilities.

- Support transition, stabilization and scope expansion initiatives within the Managed Services engagement.

Candidate Profile:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) with relevant experience in R2R, controllership, shared services, GBS or Finance Managed Services.

- Strong expertise in financial close, balance-sheet reconciliations, accounting, financial reporting, controls and audit.

- Demonstrated experience in process transformation, Lean, automation and continuous improvement.

- Strong analytical and root-cause problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive sustainable resolution of accounting and operational issues.

- Strong client/stakeholder management and people leadership capabilities.

- Exposure to ERP, reconciliation, analytics, automation and AI-enabled finance solutions preferred.